SpaceX's CRS-35 Dragon set to launch Oct. 13 with more than 6,300 pounds of cargo for the ISS
NASA and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than Tuesday, Oct. 13 at 6:33 a.m. ET to launch the 35th commercial resupply mission from Cape Canaveral. Dragon will dock to the station's Harmony module and return in mid-November.
Photo: NASA / Wikimedia Commons, public domain (file photo of an earlier cargo Dragon)
NASA and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than Tuesday, October 13 to launch SpaceX's 35th commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station, NASA said. SpaceX's launch schedule lists liftoff at 6:33 a.m. ET from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
The Dragon spacecraft is loaded with more than 6,300 pounds of supplies, science investigations and equipment. After arrival it will autonomously dock to the space-facing port of the station's Harmony module, with NASA astronauts Anil Menon and Jessica Watkins monitoring, according to NASA.
Dragon is to stay docked for about a month. When it returns in mid-November it will bring back the failed joint from the Canadarm2 robotic arm for analysis and refurbishment, a spacesuit, a pump assembly from the urine processor and a filtration unit for the water processor assembly, NASA said.